Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 & the Mac Message-ID: <3097@gmdzi.UUCP> Date: 13 Jul 90 19:12:52 GMT References: <1990Jul10.022352.4138@bdmrrr.bdm.com> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 40 davis@bdmrrr.bdm.com (Arthur Davis x4675) writes: >In reference to Wolfgang Strobl's request for a Mac programming book >like Petzold's Programming Windows: (references deleted) >If you don't mind Pascal examples, the following two volume set is good: I *do* mind, but will try to get a look into all books you mentioned, anyway, in their order. Thanks. >And concerning Wolfgang's comment about DAs and Multifinder being a kludge: >It seems to me that he was saying that Windows from the outset was a >multi-tasking multi-running-program environment; i.e. "Multifinder" was >there from the outset in Windows. The concept of the DA was a means of >allowing for a concurrently running application before the advent of the >Multifinder. Under the Multifinder, DAs are just treated as a kind of >special application, and the closer we get to System 7, the less useful >the DA concept becomes. They are just other apps in effect. My comment about the Multifinder beeing a kludge may have been a bit too strong - it was a reaction to the statement of Windows beeing "a kludge built on top of DOS". DA's surely are. I am not so sure about the Multifinder. The two books I have read so far (two a week :-) "Programmer's Introduction to the Macintosh Family" and "Technical Intro. ..." tell nothing about the Multifinder. The problem with the Multifinder is not so much one of the Multifinder itself, but of the applications running under it. Most of them are written under the assumption that they have the whole screen area at their disposal - no need to make windows resizeable, zoomable, or to be able to hide some portions of the application - all things which are standard in the Windows world. This is why many Mac people are so proud about their Macs ability to drive more than monitor and to create one big desktop on them. They need it. Wolfgang Strobl #include